Hafez Shirazi was a distinguished Persian poet. His poetry collection, Divan, is regarded as a literary work of profound significance. Iranians view this collection as something much more than poetry because it is also used for bibliomantic purposes. After studying Hafez in his social context and exploring distinctive qualities of his Divan, particularly its application as a divination tool, th...

One of the stylistic features of Hafez’s sonnets is the repetition of a part of the meaning of the first line in the second line. His knowledge of the rhetorical and semantic relations of vocabularies enabled him to repeat the meaning with the least verbal repetition. One of the ways that has helped him to achieve this goal is replicating the concepts in two parts of the couplet based on rhetor...

several structures, themes, content and semantic elements of the poems can be described to analyze the poetry of each poet, and the quality of their pristine and pure conditions and their impact on the thought of future poets would be assessed. depending on their artistry and linguistic creativity, khaghani and hafez were the poets who could create their own specific styles by making rhetoric f...

Introduction: There is a great deal of controversy regarding the effect of gestational magnesium (Mg) deficiency on fetal growth and the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) in infants. Therefore, this study aimed to delineate the possible relationship between maternal Mg level and infant LBW. Methods: This case-control study was conducted on 180 mothers in Shiraz, Iran. Fasting blood samples we...

The design of vesicles that become unstable at an easily tuned value of pH is of great interest for targeted drug delivery. We present a microscopic theory for two forms of such vesicles. A model of lipids introduced by us previously is applied to a system of ionizable anionic lipid and permanently charged cationic lipid. We calculate the pH at which the lamellar phase becomes unstable with res...

HE initial discovery by POLGE, SMITH and PARKES (1949) that glycerol aff ords protection to spermatozoa during freezing and thawing subsequently led to the development of semen banks which have greatly facilitated livestock improvement especially in the cattle breeding industry. However, until recently, the few attempts to preserve mammalian embryos by freezing have been relatively unsuccessful...

Calibrations of two tissue equivalent (TE) ionization chamber were made in five photon beams (100 kV, 180 kV, 250 kV, Cs and Co) with two different pure gases namely acetylene C2 H2 and carbon dioxide CO2. The different calibration factors were compared both for in-air and in-water phantom, the measurements were performed according to the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) recommendation...